James A. Garfield (1831-1881)
Major-General James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1881)
He was preceded in the Presidency by Rutherford B. Hayes, but after serving just six months for the Republican Party, he was assassinated in 1881 and succeeded by his Vice-President, Chester A. Arthur. In 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph and they had seven children of whom all but the eldest and youngest lived to adulthood.
